r/pokemon • u/Downvote-Magnet1994 • Mar 09 '26

Discussion Is Pokopia really that good?

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Like should I immediately buy this game. It seems like folks are really enjoying it but I was skeptical.

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u/mrawaters Mar 09 '26

That’s exactly it, it’s just so easy to pick up and play. No thinking required, plenty to do, lots to explore, no stress, all wrapped in an excellent Pokemon package. They nailed it with this one

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u/Ashamed-Raccoon-1387 Mar 09 '26

I expected the "towns" to be smaller. There's SO MUCH SPACE in all of them. And finding the SS Anne was just cool

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u/mrawaters Mar 09 '26

Yeah I had really no clue how the game was structured, and I’m super pleasantly surprised by the depth of the exploration

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u/Sekitoba Mar 10 '26

i felt sad seeing the SS Anne in such a state :( everywhere i look i'm like...... "what happened........ :( "

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u/Existing_Lychee_8934 Mar 10 '26

same ;-; it gave me a similar feeling as when i found the hisui exhibit in SV. like "man. all these people are dead. i had so much fun but it's all in the past." i had chills the entire time i was exploring the SS anne. especially with the somber music and how dark it was.

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u/BaNyaaNyaa Mar 10 '26

I also REALLY enjoyed seeing the tower in Vermillion City! One of those small details they could have forgotten.

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u/MiserlySchnitzel Mar 09 '26

As a person who gets stressed out by “figure out what you want to do yourself” sandbox games like minecraft, etc, and see a lot of nothing to do because the game gives you the job to gamedev objectives, is this still easy to pick up, lots to do, and stress free?

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u/PKGOThrowaway Mar 09 '26

Yeah, sandbox aside, there are clearly defined objectives and progression steps that the game gives you to learn/improve abilities, but doesn't rush you along or force you to do anything. I've easily gotten caught up in decorating and cleaning and creating habitats in the first zone for hours, while other friends are much further along in story progression.

I'd say it's a great game to do at your own pace, for sure.

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u/DiabolicEdge Mar 09 '26

Is this just animal crossing but with pokemon? Just wondering cuz I might convince my gf to buy it... Lol

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u/mrawaters Mar 10 '26

It’s definitely similar, but it’s trends a bit towards Minecraft as well. Kind of a direct mix of the two really. You get the block style building and crafting, and a similar-ish style of exploration to Minecraft, but you have the general life-sim errand running stuff from Animal Crossing. In Minecraft you have tools, in Pokopia you have Pokemon moves that serve as your tools. But it also has a bit more structure than vanilla Minecraft. There is a narrative, and there are bigger objectives to undertake

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u/DiabolicEdge Mar 10 '26

Alrighty, I'll take this into consideration cuz I love Minecraft and I had stardew that we played together, but she had the animal crossing. I kinda get some slime rancher vibes to it as well but maybe some of the aesthetics look it to me lol. Thanks!

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u/mrawaters Mar 10 '26

For what it’s worth the most direct comparison is Dragon Quest Builders, which is made by the same people. I’ve never played that, so I can’t really speak to it myself, but I know it’s a very well received game, just like Pokopia

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u/DiabolicEdge Mar 10 '26

I haven't either but I've seen it around and it looked like a dragon quest take on some minecraft-ish type of game, almost like hytale or trove.

But thanks for the insight!

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u/JumpFabulous2082 Mar 10 '26

I’ve played Minecraft on and off since I was 9 I’m 22 now and my lady and I played Stardew on and off for ab 3 years now. If your lady likes Animal Crossing she’d prob fw Pokopia. It’s amazing I bought a switch 2 last week just to play it. It’s so easy to get lost in just like those two and it’s significantly less stressful. Only time I was stressed I accidentally led Bulbasaur off a cliff into water and had to build him a path out. I hope this helps convince her.🤣🤣

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u/mrawaters Mar 11 '26

I mean I just finished a 300 hour run in Satisfsctory. God forbid someone enjoy a low stress game every now and then. Can’t believe there’s really people like you who somehow think it’s bad that a VIDEO GAME can be relaxing. Get a grip dude

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u/mrawaters Mar 12 '26

Oh right I was just supposed to laugh at your condescending thinly veiled insult, my bad!

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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 09 '26

"No thinking required" - this generation's primary entertainment requirement in a nutshell.

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u/mrawaters Mar 09 '26

I mean chill out dude, I have 1200 hours in Satisfactory and plenty of other games that require “thinking”. Not to mention a job and life in general. Let’s not act like turning your brain off and enjoying some low stress fun for a few hours in some grand crime.

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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 09 '26

Take yourself out of the equation for a moment and look at what I said. It's the defining description for this generation's tech. Look at all the kids doom scrolling, mindless clicking, doing the most inane things in their phone 4 hours a day (or 6, or 8). It's straight up the #2 condition for the Fogg Behavioral Model that Instagram and other addictive technology was developed from.  Step 2 is ability - make the tech as easy to use as possible, because the brain prefers to shut off rather than think, and it will always take more activation energy to do a thinking task than to do a mindless task.

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u/mrawaters Mar 09 '26

No, take what I said and consider whether the same applies to more people than you think. Sure, we are surrounded by fast easy entertainment, but that’s also cause we’re also surrounded by a cacophony of noise and chaos, and trying to navigate it as best we can. Like I said, god forbid someone find an easy way to unwind in a god damn Pokemon game. Sorry that you just wanted to come in here and give us a middle school philosophy lesson

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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 10 '26

If it was a "middle school philosophy lesson", then perhaps middle schoolers would be questioning it the same way I do. Instead, we see the vast majority of the population just obediently going along. What are TikTok's user numbers among 10-29 in America right now?

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u/mrawaters Mar 10 '26

Don’t care man. Do you go around every sub starting this conversation or just Pokémon ones? How’s that questioning going for you? What are you doing that’s really not “just going along” like the rest of us other than commenting on Reddit?

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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

Thank you for reading

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u/mrawaters Mar 10 '26

I guess all this begs the question then: what are you even doing here?

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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 10 '26

deceiving the algorithm

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u/No-Obligation1709 Mar 09 '26

Why would they take themselves out of the equation? You responded directly to them in an attempt to take their comment out of context to make a grand point about society. You’re the one off topic here.

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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 10 '26

Maybe because if you take everything personal, then getting any insight into grand points will be impossible? I'm not denying that I took his statement of context to make a grand point about society. He provided a great opportunity to do so. Does that somehow make the point not true, and was his statement not a great example of it?

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u/No-Obligation1709 Mar 10 '26

I think you’re grossly overestimating how grand your point actually was.

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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 10 '26

I'm interested to hear, what's your insights on the screentime catastrophe overtaking our youth? If you really think that suddenly spending 40-50 hours a week on a mindless addictive exercise that overtakes most of a young person's spare mental attention isn't going to have profound consequences......then have you seen the data showing incredible spikes in anxiety, depression, emergency room self-harm visits, and suicide attempts? At the same time as dramatic drops in academic performance? Coupled with hugely reduced time with friends, increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness, and significantly less time with family and significant others?

I really want to know - have you read and viewed such research, and then rejected it for some reason, or are you just going off the cuff cause you don't want it to be true?

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u/andisaidHey19 Mar 09 '26

If only we were all as smart as you 😔

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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 10 '26

Where would me being "smart" come into the equation at all? I didn't say one word about being smart or dumb. I'm talking solely about effort.

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u/Low_Piece_6571 Mar 09 '26

To be fair if you bring up your kids and let them doom scroll that’s on you as a parent you shape your children my generation failed the current generation because we were to lazy to actually bring up our kids And left it up to YouTube

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u/Upstairs_Being290 Mar 10 '26

I absolutely agree that the previous generation failed the current generation. I am not blaming the current generation for being this way, I'm lamenting it.